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RDINANCES, RULES AND 
REGULATIONS 



OF THE 



DEPARTMENT of PARKS 



OF THE 



CITY OF NEW YORK 



ORDINANCES, RULES AND 
REGULATIONS 



OF THE 



DEPARTMENT, of PARKS 



OF THE 



CITY OF NEW YORK 



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D. of D. 
JAN 22 1917 



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ORDINANCES, RULES AND REGULATIONS 

OF THE 

DEPARTMENT OF PARKS 

■ 
of the City of New York 



The Park Board under Chapter 610 of the Char- 
ter (3d Edition, 1906) ordains as follows: 

CHAPTER 17. 

PARKS, PARKWAYS AND PARK-STREETS. 

(Regulations of the Park Board.) 

Article 1. General provisions. 

2. Traffic regulations. 

3. Building and other projections. 

4. Miscellaneous. 





ARTICLE 1. 


Section 1. 


Definitions. 


2. 


Interfering with lands or improve- 




ments thereon. 


2. 


Sub-surface disturbances. 


4. 


Over-head wires. 


5. 


Destruction of or injury to park prop- 




erty. 

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6. Preservation of lawns and grass plots. 

7. Bringing trees, plants and flowers into 

parks. 

8. Use of roller skates. 

9. Bubbish and refuse matter. 

10. Processions; drills; music. . 

11. Public meetings. 

12. Sales or exhibitions. 

13. Posting bills or placards. 

14. Bathing, fishing, boating and skating. 

15. Protection of animals, birds and rep- 

tiles. 

15a. Baseball and Other Games. 

16. Animals at large. 

17. Disorderly conduct. 

18. Custodian of minors. 

§1. Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly 
stated, whenever used in this chapter, the follow- 
ing terms shall respectively be deemed to mean : 

1. Commissioner, or the commissioner, the 
park commissioner having jurisdiction of a par- 
ticular park, or park-street, as hereinafter de- 
fined ; 

2. Park, any park, parkway, square, circle, or 
concourse, or part thereof, under the jurisdiction 
of the park department; 

3. Park-street, a street, avenue, boulevard or 
other highway, under the jurisdiction of the park 
department ; 

4. Permit, a written authorization for the ex- 
ercise of a specified park privilege, issued by the 
park commissioner having jurisdiction. 

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§2. Interfering with lands or improvements 
ihereon. No person shall modify, alter or in any 
manner interfere with the line or grades of any 
park or park-street, nor take up, move or disturb 
any curb, gutter stone, flagging, tree, treebox, rail- 
ing, fence, sod, soil or gravel thereof, except by 
direction of the commissioner or under his per- 
mit. 

§3. Sub-surface disturbances. No person shall 
open, expose or interfere with any water or gas 
pipe, hydrant, stopcock, sewer, basin or other con- 
struction, within or upon any park or park-street, 
nor make any connection therewith, except under 
the authority of a permit, and upon the deposit 
of such sum of money as may be required by the 
commissioner to insure the restoration of the 
soil, sod, plants, shrubs, trees, sidewalk, pavement, 
curb, gutter and flagging disturbed in the making 
of such connection. 

§4. Overhead wires. No person shall attach or 
string any electric or other wire, or adjust or 
carry the same into or over any park or park- 
street, except under a permit. 

§5. Destruction of or injury to park property. 
No person shall cut, break or in any way injure 
or deface any tree, shrub, plant, grass, post, rail- 
ing, chain, lamp, lamp-post, bench, tree-guard, 
building, structure or other property in, or upon 
any park or park-street. 

§6. Preservation of lawns and grass plots. No 

person unless he shall hold a special permit 

therefor or unless a special permit therefor shall 

have been issued to a group of which he is a mem- 

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ber shall go upon any lawn or grassplot in any 
park or parkway except when permission therefor 
shall have been given to the public by the commis- 
sioner. 

§7. Bringing trees, plants and flowers into 
parks. No person shall bring into or carry within 
a park any tree, shrub, plant or flower, or newly 
plucked part thereof, without a permit. 

§8. Use roller skates upon any sidewalk, bridle 
path or driveway, nor in any building or place of 
public assembly, except upon such walks and dur- 
ing such hours as may be designated by the com- 
missioner. 

§9. Rubbish and refuse matter. No person 
shall throw, cast or lay, or direct, suffer or permit 
any servant, agent, employee or person in his or 
her charge, to throw, cast or lay, any ashes, offal, 
vegetables, garbage, dross, cinders, shells, straw, 
shavings, paper, dirt, filth or rubbish of any kind 
whatsoever in any park, or in any lake, lawn, path, 
walk, road or drive thereof, or in any park-street; 
provided that in the morning before 8 o'clock, or 
before the first sweeping of the roadway of any 
park-street by the street cleaners, dust from the 
sidewalk may be swept into the gutter, if there 
piled, but not otherwise. 

§10. Processions; drills; music. No parade, 
drill or manoeuver of any kind shall be conducted, 
nor shall any person play upon a musical instru- 
ment or display any flag, banner, target, sign, 
placard or transparency in any park, nor shall any 
civic or other procession form or move therein, 
without a permit; but no such permit shall be 
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necessary for the use of the parade ground in 
Van Cortlandt Park, borough of the Bronx, and 
the parade ground adjacent to Prospect Park, 
borough of Brooklyn, by organizations of the Na- 
tional Guard of the State of New York. 

§11. Public meetings. No person shall erect 
any structure, stand or platform, or hold any meet- 
ing, or perform any ceremony or make a speech, 
address or harangue in any park without a per- 
mit from the commissioner having jurisdiction. 

§12. Permits for sales, exhibitions, etc. No 
person shall exhibit, sell, or offer for sale anything 
whatsoever, or take any photograph, or perform 
any personal service for hire in any park or park- 
way, or in any street, square, or public place under 
the jurisdiction of the department of parks ex- 
cept under a permit from the commissioner of 
parks of the borough in which such park or park- 
way, street, square, or public place is situated or 
otherwise than in accordance with the terms of 
such permit, provided, however, that the provi- 
sions of this section shall not apply to public hack 
stands maintained in streets adjacent to public 
parks, pursuant to section 99, article 8, chapter 14 
of the Code of Ordinances. 

§13. Posting bills or placards; distributing 
cards, circulars or pamphlets. No person shall 
post any bill, placard, notice or other paper upon 
any structure, tree, rock, article or thing within 
any park or upon any park-street, nor paint or 
affix thereon, in any other way, any advertisement, 
notice or exhortation, except under a permit and 
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in strict conformity therewith. No person shall 
distribute, hand out or cast about any card, cir- 
cular, pamphlet or other printed matter within 
any park or upon any park-street. 

§14. Bathing, fishing, boating and skating. 
No person shall bathe in, nor disturb in any way 
the fish in, the waters or fountains of any park, 
nor cast any substance therein; except, that in 
the waters adjacent to Pelham Bay Park bathing 
and fishing shall be permitted, subject to the 
rules and regulations prescribed by the commis- 
sioner. Fishing may also be allowed in the lakes 
of Prospect Park and Kissena Park, under per- 
mits. No person shall be permitted to appear in 
bathing costume in any park or parkway, except 
on the beaches in Pelham Bay, Seaside, Dream- 
land, Jacob Eiis and Kockaway Parks. No boat or 
vessel shall be placed upon any of the waters of 
any park, except by special permit. No skating 
or sledding shall be allowed on any park lakes, un- 
less and until the ice is declared to be in a suitable 
condition by the commissioner. 

§15. Protection of animals, birds and reptiles. 
No person shall hunt, chase, shoot, trap, discharge 
or throw missiles at, or molest or disturb in any 
way, any animal, bird or reptile in any park. 

§15- A. Baseball and other games. No person 
shall throw, cast, catch, kick or strike with any 
implement whatever, any baseball, golf ball, foot- 
ball, basket ball, bean bag, or other object in or 
upon any park or parkway, or any square, circle, 
concourse, playground, street, avenue, boulevard or 
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other highway under the jurisdiction of the park 
department, or on any recreation pier, without a 
permit therefor issued by the commissioner or 
his supervisor of recreation nor otherwise than 
in accordance with the terms of such permit. 

§16. Animals at large. No horse or other ani- 
mal shall be allowed to go at large in any park or 
upon any park-street, except dogs that are re- 
strained by a chain or leash not exceeding 6 feet 
in length. 

§17. Disorderly conduct. No person shall, in 
any park, 

1. Use threatening, abusive or insulting lan- 
guage; 

2. Do any obscene or indecent act ; 

3. Throw stones or other missiles; 

4. Beg or publicly solicit subscriptions or con- 
tributions ; 

5. Tell fortunes; 

6. Play games of chance, or use or operate any 
gaming table or instrument; 

7. Climb upon any wall, fence, shelter, seat, 
statute or other erection; 

8. Fire or carry any firearm, firecracker, tor- 
pedo or fireworks; 

9. Make a fire; 

10. Enter or leave except at the established en- 
trance-ways ; 

11. Enter any park for the purpose of loiter- 
ing and remaining therein after 12 o'clock at 
night, except as, on special occasions, the occupa- 
tion and use thereof may be authorized beyond 
the regular hours; 

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12. Do any act tending to a breach of the 
public peace. 

13. Bring into any park a beverage con- 
taining alcohol, except for delivery to a restaurant 
therein, duly licensed by the State Excise Depart- 
ment, with the permission of the commissioner of 
parks having jurisdiction, or consume publicly, 
except within the premises of a restaurant, duly 
licensed as aforesaid, any beverage containing alco- 
hol. 

All persons doing any act injurious to a park 
shall be removed therefrom by the park keepers 
or by the police. When necessary to the protec- 
tion of life or property, the officers and keepers of 
the park may remove all persons from any desig- 
nated part thereof. 

§18. No parent, guardian or custodian of a 
minor shall permit or allow such minor to do 
any act prohibited by any provision of this chap- 
ter. 





ARTICLE 2. 
Traffic Regulations. 


Section 30. 


Use of drives and bridle paths. 


31. 


Vehicles obstructing assemblies. 


32. 


Towing vehicles. 


33. 


Restrictions on certain vehicles. 


34. 


Public hacks, cabs and automobiles. 


35. 


Carriers of offensive refuse or heavy 




materials. 


36. 


Smoky motor vehicles. 


37. 


Park-streets. 
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38. Harlem Kiver driveway. 

39. Ocean Boulevard, Bay Parkway, 

Eastern Parkway and the Brook- 
lyn-Queens Speedway. 

40. Bicyclists. 

41. Coney Island cycle paths. 

42. Instruction in driving motor vehicles 

or bicycles. 

§30. Use of drives and bridle paths. In all 
parks and parkways, the drives shall be used only 
by persons in pleasure vehicles, on bicycles or on 
horseback; the bridle paths only by persons on 
horseback. Animals to be used on either shall be 
well broken, and constantly held in such control 
that they may be easily and quickly turned or 
stopped. No person shall operate, drive or propel, 
and no owner thereof riding thereon or therein 
shall cause or permit to be operated, driven or 
propelled, on any park drive, parkway or park 
street, any bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, motor-cycle, 
motor-tricycle, motor delivery wagon, or motor ve- 
hicle, however propelled, or any vehicle drawn by 
horses or other animals, recklessly or negligently, 
or at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger, or 
to be likely to endanger, the life or limb or prop- 
erty of any person. A rate of speed exceeding 15 
miles per hour shall constitute prima facie evi- 
dence of a prohibited rate of speed and manner of 
driving, and a violation of the provisions of this 
section ; a rate of speed exceeding 20 miles per 
hour shall constitute a prohibited rate of speed 
and manner of driving, and a violation of the 
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provisions of this section; and a rate of speed ex- 
ceeding 25 miles per hour, on parkways in the 
outlying sections of the parks of the boroughs of 
The Bronx, Eichmond, and Queens, shall consti- 
tute a prohibited rate of speed and manner of 
driving, and a violation of the provisions of this 
section. When an officer on duty shall direct, by 
gesture or otherwise, that the speed of an animal 
or vehicle shall be checked > or that it shall be 
stopped, or its course altered, such direction shall 
be immediately obeyed. No horse or other beast 
of burden, nor any automobile, shall be driven or 
suffered to stand anywhere except on the drive or 
bridle path. On all driveways and parkways where 
grass plots divide the way, all vehicles and horse- 
men must keep on the right hand drive or bridle 
path. 

§31. Vehicles obstructing assemblies. No own- 
er or operator of a motor-cycle, automobile or 
horse-drawn vehicle shall stop near any of the 
music stands or other places, in or about a park, 
parkway, plaza, concourse, circle or square, where 
any considerable number of persons are accustomed 
to congregate, or where such motor-cycles, auto- 
mobiles or vehicles would be a source of danger to 
life and limb, except by permission of the com- 
missioner. 

§32. Towing vehicles. No vehicle of any kind, 
in tow of another vehicle or machine, shall be 
allowed to enter any park or to proceed along any 
parkway, but, in case of break-down within a 
park or parkway, the disabled vehicle may be 
towed to the nearest point of exit. 
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§33. Restrictions on certain vehicles. 1. 
Hearses. No hearse, or other vehicle or person 
carrying the body of a dead person, shall enter or 
be allowed in any part of a park, except by permit. 

2. Public carriers. No public omnibus or ex- 
press wagon, and no wagon, cart or other vehicle, 
carrying or ordinarily used to carry merchandise, 
goods, tools or rubbish shall enter such public 
parks, parkways, squares or places except upon 
traffic roads provided for the purpose, without a 
permit. 

3. Fire apparatus. . No fire engine or other 
apparatus on wheels for extinguishing fire shall 
enter or be allowed upon any part of the park, 
except the transverse and traffic roads. 

§34. Public hacks, cabs and automobiles. 1. 
Special permits. No automobile, stage or other 
vehicle shall be allowed to carry passengers for 
hire over or upon any park or parkways, except 
upon traffic roads, without a permit. 

2. Awaiting fares. No vehicle for hire shall 
stand within a park, parkway or park-street for 
tb. purpose of taking up passengers, other than 
those whom it has brought in, without a permit. 

3. Soliciting passengers. All drivers or at- 
b idants of vehicles for hire, standing upon or 
w.ihin any park, parkway or park-street, shall re- 
main in close proximity to their vehicles while so 
standing, and no person shall :n any way solicit a 
passenger for any vehicle for hire in any park, 
parkway or park-street. 

§35. Carriers of offensive refuse or heavy ma- 
terials. No garbage, ashes, manure or other offen- 
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sive material shall be carried over any parkway 
or through any park, except upon traffic roads set 
apart for the purpose. When such refuse is to 
be removed from residences fronting on any park 
or park-street, the vehicle collecting the same must 
leave the park or street as soon as the collection 
has been accomplished, and within the time pre- 
scribed by the commissioner. No earth, sand or 
broken stone shall be carried over any parkway 
except on traffic roads, without a permit. 

§36. Smoky motor vehicles. No person shall 
be permitted to run a motor vehicle which emits 
offensive quantities of smoke or gas or disagree- 
able odors from its exhaust, or muffler, in a park 
or park-street. 

§37. Park-streets. 1. General. No animal or 
vehicle shall be permitted to stand, nor shall any 
incumbrance of any kind be allowed to remain 
upon any street adjacent to or bounding upon any 
park, without a permit; except that vehicles may 
be permitted to take up and set down passengers, 
and to load and unload merchandise in the usual 
manner, and may occupy the street a reasonable 
time for the purpose; provided, however, that 
they shall not, while so doing, unnecessarily in- 
cumber the street or obstruct travel therein. 

2. Special. The delivery of supplies to the 
residences on Riverside Drive and Morningside 
Avenue, West, in Manhattan, and the Shore Road 
in Brooklyn, will be permitted in the forenoon, 
but no business vehicles shall enter upon or pass 
over said parkways after the hour of noon, except 
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by special permit. In passing over any of said 
streets, business vehicles must go directly to the 
place of delivery and must leave such street with- 
out unnecessary delay, and by the shortest route — 
the place of entry, if possible. The park-streets 
specified in this sub-division must not be used to 
enable business vehicles to reach places exterior to 
such streets. 

§38. Harlem River driveway. 1. Speedway 
restricted. The use of the Speedway is restricted 
to horse drawn pleasure vehicles and to light 
vehicles of the classes known as buggies, runabouts, 
surreys and other like vehicles adapted to the 
speeding of light harness horses, seating not more 
than four persons and drawn by one or two horses, 
except by permit. Exercising carts may be used 
until 1 p. m. only. 

2. Speeding, on Sundays and holidays, and 
after 3 o'clock p. m. on other days, will be per- 
mitted in one direction — from north to south 
only. 

3. Ordinary travel. When not speeding, driv- 
ers must keep closely to the right hand side of 
the road and keep moving. 

4. Turning forbidden, except at the ends of 
the driveway and at the bridges. 

5. Loud shouting, to make horses break or urge 
them on, is strictly prohibited. 

6. Hobbles. The use of hobbles, or other sim- 
ilar device or apparatus to fetter or connect the 
legs of horses, for the purpose of restricting or 
hampering their motion or gait, is forbidden. 

7. Crossing roadway. Pedestrians must not 

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cross oti the Speedway; subways are provided for 
that purpose. 

§39. Ocean Boulevard, Bay Parkway, Eastern 
Parkway and the Speedway in Brooklyn and 
Queens. 1: Business vehicles. Wagons, trucks 
and other business vehicles, heavy or light, are 
prohibited from using the main drive of the 
Ocean Parkway and from using the Bay Parkway 
between 80th Street and Gravesend Bay, and must 
use the west road at all times, and they must 
use the block pavement, at either side of the main 
road or the traffic roads of the Eastern Parkway-. 

1-A. It shall be unlawful to drive any vehicle 
over the easterly side road or bridle road of the 
Ocean Parkway, between Prospect Park and the 
Coney Island Concourse, except as it may be nec- 
essary to cart or convey supplies to the residences 
along said easterly side road, or in case of build- 
ings being erected fronting on said side road, when 
it shall be lawful to cart building materials there- 
on. In all cases, however, vehicles must enter 
said road from the street nearest to said residence 
or house in course of construction, and must leave 
the same at the next following intersecting street. 

2. Automobiles. Automobiles will not be per- 
mitted on the Speedway, between Bay Parkway 
and King's Highway, on Wednesday afternoons 
between 1 and 6 p. m. During these hours, on 
Wednesday, automobiles must take the west road. 
Vehicles of all other kinds except those for light 
harness driving shall be excluded from the Speed- 
way during the hours herein specified. 

3. Speeding. Light harness driving on the 

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Speedway (Ocean Parkway, between Bay Park- 
way and King's Highway) shall not be restricted 
as to speed, on Wednesdays, between the hours of 
1 and 6 p. m. ; speeding, however, is only to be 
permitted from Bay Parkway toward Coney 
Island, and drivers shall be compelled to observe 
the rules of the road. 

4. No person shall operate an automobile on 
that part of the Eastchester Bay Shore Eoad, be- 
ginning at the northerly approach to the bridge 
over Eastchester Bay at its junction with the 
Eastern Boulevard, and running thence easterly 
and then northerly, following a winding course, 
approximately parallel to the shore line of East- 
chester Bay for a distance of approximately 4,450 
feet to a point on the City Island Eoad, 125 feet 
west of Glover's Eock, nor upon that portion of 
the Shore Eoad known familiarly as the Orchard 
Beach Shore Eoad, beginning at a point on the 
City Island Eoad 435 feet east of Glover's Eock, 
running thence in a winding course approximately 
parallel to the shore line of Pelham Bay, through 
the camp reservation at Orchard Beach, and for 
a distance approximately 4,800 feet to the City 
Island Eoad where it joins the westerly approach 
to the City Island Bridge. 

§40. Bicyclists. No person shall ride a bi- 
cycle upon the foot-paths in any park or park- 
ways. Bicyclists walking upon a foot-path may 
push their wheels along the path, but in no case 
shall the machine be taken upon the turf. 

§41. Coney Island cycle-paths. 1. Reserved 
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for cyclists. Horses, wagons, carriages, automo- 
biles and pedestrians must not use bicycle paths. 

2. Going and returning. Cyclists must use the 
west path when going toward Couey Island, and 
the east path in returning. 

3. Speed limit. Cyclists and motor cyclists 
must not exceed a speed of eighteen miles an hour 
on the bicycle paths. Racing on the bicycle paths 
is prohibited, except by special permission of the 
commissioner. 

§42. Instruction in driving motor vehicles or 
bicycles. Instruction in operating automobiles, 
motor cycles, bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes or 
other vehicles of propulsion, is prohibited in parks 
and parkways at all times. 

ARTICLE 3. 

Projections upon Parks, Parkways or Park- 
streets. 

Section 60. General provisions. 

61. Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. 

62. Riverside Drive. 

§60. General provisions. 1. Jurisdiction. 
Each commissioner may grant permits for the 
erection and maintenance of projections on any 
park or parkway, within his jurisdiction, and on 
all streets and avenues within a distance of 350 
feet from the outer boundaries thereof, upon such 
terms and conditions and upon the making of 
such compensation to the city as in his discretion 
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he may determine, with respect to the particular 
locality. 

2. Correction of defects. Where permits have 
heretofore been granted upon the making of com- 
pensation and a new permit is desired to correct 
any irregularity, defect or supposed want of jur- 
isdiction in the granting of such permit, a new 
permit may be granted without further compen- 
sation. 

3. Curb and surface construction. Each com- 
missioner may determine the line of curb and the 
surface constructions of all streets and avenues, 
lying within any park or parkway, in his jurisdic- 
tion, or within a distance of 350 feet from the 
outer boundaries thereof, as he may deem advis- 
able, according to the particular locality, and best 
calculated to maintain the beauty and utility of 
such park or parkway. 

4. House projections. All applications for the 
privilege of erecting bay windows or other house 
projections shall be made to the commissioner in 
whose administrative jurisdiction the park or park- 
way affected lies, who may, in his discretion, grant 
the same, upon payment of a fee to be determined 
in each case by him. Working plans in duplicate, 
drawn to a scale of one-quarter inch to the foot, 
shall be required to accompany each application, 
showing the elevation, plans and vertical sections 
of extent of projection, one copy of which shall 
be filed in the office of the commissioner, and an- 
other shall be returned to the applicant, for filing 
in the appropriate bureau of buildings, upon the 
approval of the commissioner. No permit will 

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be granted to cover more than 4 feet of projection 
beyond the house or building line, nor shall the 
projections occupy, longitudinally with the street 
or avenue, more than two-thirds of the width of 
the building from which they project. 

§61. Fifth Avenue, .Manhattan. 1. Owners 
of property on the easterly side of Fifth Avenue, 
between 58th and 111th Streets, in the borough of 
Manhattan, are permitted to inclose, for court- 
yard purposes, and not otherwise, 15 feet of the 
sidewalks adjacent to and in front of their re- 
spective lots; and the stoops of buildings erected 
on said avenue may, in such cases, project to the 
extent of such courtyards; provided, 

1. That such stoops shall, in every instance, be 
open above the railing or balustrade thereof ; 

2. That the form, size and character thereof, 
together with the form, size and character of the 
area railings, shall be subject to the approval of 
the commissioner; 

3. That no stoop or area railing shall be con- 
structed or put upon Fifth Avenue, or upon any 
of the streets or avenues surrounding Central 
Park, within the boundaries first above mentioned, 
until the plan thereof has been submitted to and 
approved by the said commissioner. 

§G2. Riverside Drive. 1. General provisions. 
No structure or construction of any description, 
nor any part thereof, shall be placed or permitted 
on or under Riverside Drive until working plans 
in duplicate, drawn to a scale % inch to the 
foot, shall have been filed with the Department of 
Parks, with an application for the erection or con- 
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struction of the structure; said drawings to show 
elevations, floor plans and vertical sections of 
the extent of projections, and that the applicant 
has received permission to erect the said projection, 
as shown on drawings from the department. 

2. Areas, courtyards, steps or stoops. No area, 
courtyard, step or stoop or any part or appurte- 
nance thereof, shall project into the drive, beyond 
the building line, to the- extent of more than 5 
feet where the sidewalk is 16 feet wide; 7 feet, 
where the sidewalk is 20 feet wide; 8 feet, where 
the sidewalk is 25 feet wide, and in proportion 
to the above, where the sidewalk is between 16 
and 20 feet or between 20 and 25. No stoop or 
steps shall be covered, except over the landing or 
platform at the top, nor shall they be inclosed 
except by an open railing, not more than 4 feet 
in height. 

3. Bay windows. Bay windows shall not pro- 
ject in the drive, beyond the building line, to the 
extent of more than 4 feet, and, when allowed to 
project into the drive, they shall not occupy, longi- 
tudinally with the drive, more than two-thirds of 
the width of the building from which they project. 

4. Balconies, cornices and ornaments. No bal- 
cony, cornice or ornament shall project into the 
drive, beyond the house line, to the extent of more 
than 4 feet, nor shall any balcony be inclosed on 
the front side, except by a railing not over 4 feet 
in height. 

5. Sub-surface construction. No vault or other 
construction below the sidewalk shall be built 
except in such manner as shall leave the sewers, 

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gas and water pipes, or space proposed to be oc- 
cupied by the same, free and uninclosed and in 
safe condition, nor in any case to extend in the 
clear beyond the curb line. 

§63. Ocean Parkway. 1. Veranda, porch, 
piazza or portico projections beyond courtyard 
restriction line. All applications for projections 
of verandas, porches, piazzas, etc., beyond the 
thirty (30) foot restriction line of Ocean Park- 
way shall be accompanied by blue prints of plan 
of proposed projection, drawn to a scale of one- 
quarter (i/4) of an inch to the foot, showing re- 
striction line, lot lines, plan and section or plan 
and elevation of projection. The projection shall 
not exceed fifteen (15) feet beyond the restriction 
line at any point, and shall be of open construction, 
with roof supported by columns or piers. 

§64. Restricted areas on Ocean Parkway, East- 
ern Parkway and Plaza Street. The restricted 
areas on these parkways shall be reserved strictly 
for the purposes set forth in the respective laws 
governing same and shall not be used temporarily 
or permanently for any of the following purposes : 
advertising signs, contractors' tool houses or shan- 
ties, disposal of garbage, refuse, rubbish or other 
waste materials, clumping ground for filling ma- 
terial, garage buildings, news-stands, gasoline sta- 
tions, moving picture houses or purveying stands. 
No use or occupancy of any nature whatsoever 
shall be made of these restricted areas without a 
permit having been previously secured from the 
commissioner of parks having jurisdiction. 

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AETICLE 4. 

Miscellaneous. 

Section 70. Trees and shrubs in streets. 
71. New York Botanical Garden. 

§70. Trees and shrubs in streets. 1. Plant- 
ing. No shade or ornamental tree, or shrub, shall 
be planted in any street until a permit has been 
granted by the commissioner having jurisdiction. 
No hole or excavation shall be prepared for plant- 
ing any tree or shrub, unless sufficient mould 
of satisfactory quality shall be used, and the con- 
ditions, such as the absence of poisonous gas and 
deleterious substances, have been made satisfac- 
tory. 

2. Cutting, breaking or disturbing. No stem, 
branch or leaf of any such tree or shrub shall be 
cut, broken or otherwise disturbed, nor shall the 
root of any such tree or shrub be disturbed or 
interfered with in any way, by any individual or 
any officer or employee of a public or private cor- 
poration, until a permit shall have been issued 
therefor. The surface of the ground within 3 
feet of any such tree or shrub, shall not be culti- 
vated, fertilized, paved or given any treatment 
whatever, except under a permit. 

3. Misuse. No person shall cut, deface, mutil- 
ate or in any way misuse any such tree or shrub, 
nor shall any horse or other animal be permitted 
to stand in a manner or position where it may cut. 
deface or mutilate the same. No building mate- 

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rial, or other material or debris of any kind, shall 
be piled or maintained against any tree or shrub. 
No guy rope, cable or other contrivance shall be 
attached to any tree or shrub, nor shall any tree 
or shrub be used in connection with any banner, 
transparency or any business purpose whatever, 
except under a permit. 

§71. New York Botanical Garden. All pro- 
visions of this chapter, respecting the government 
of parks, shall be applicable to the New York 
Botanical Garden; provided, that in any case in 
which the commissioner is authorized to issue a 
permit for the exercise of a park privilege, the 
permit, if authorizing the exercise of such a priv- 
ilege in the New York Botanical Garden shall be 
recommended or approved by the Director-in-Chief 
of the Garden. 



Regulations of Bronx Zoological Park. 
Admission. 

1. The Zoological Park will be open to the 
public every day in the year. From April 15th 
to October 15th, the gates will be open at 9 a. m., 
and from October 16th to April 14th at 10 a. m. 
The park will be closed to incoming visitors, half 
an hour before sunset throughout the year. 

2. On Mondays and Thursdays, except when 
either of those days fall on a legal holiday, all 
persons who are not members of the Zoological 
Society, or are not provided with member's tickets, 
shall pay for each adult 25 cents admission, and 

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for each child over five and under 12 years, 15 
cents admission. 

3. All visitors must leave the park not later 
than sunset; and visitors found in the park after 
sunset will be liable to arrest as suspicious or dis- 
orderly persons. 

4. No dogs shall be allowed in the park 
whether in leash or carried in arms; but this rule 
shall not apply to dogs which are kept contin- 
uously confined in automobiles or carriages while 
in the park. 

5. No cameras or other photographic appar- 
atus will be allowed in the Zoological Park, except 
upon written permit from the Society. Such per- 
mits may be issued to animal painters and sculp- 
tors, and to reporters regularly employed by news- 
papers, under proper rules and. restrictions. No 
such permits will be granted under any circum- 
stances for use on Sundays or public holidays. 



Vehicles in the parlc. 

6. No vehicles except service wagons, carts and 
coal trucks will be allowed on any walk, roadway 
or public space in the Zoological Park other than 
the Service Road, and only on the Service Road 
when driven slowly. The carriages and auto- 
mobiles of visitors shall be restricted to the Con- 
course Entrance, and the Concourse itself. This 
rule will be strictly enforced, and, if necessary, 
those violating it will be arrested for disorderly 
conduct. 

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7. All wagons, carts and automobiles deliver- 
ing supplies must enter at the Service Entrance, 
on the Southern Boulevard, at 185th Street. 

Conduct. 

8. No disorderly or intoxicated persons will 
be allowed within the Zoological Park under any 
circumstances. The use of abusive or insulting 
language to any of the employees of the Park shall 
be sufficient cause for the expulsion from the Park 
of the offender, or arrest for disorderly conduct. 
This rule will be strictly observed as the employees 
of the Society are under strict orders to act courte- 
ously towards the public. 

9. All visitors are strictly forbidden to feed 
any animals in the Zoological Park, except the 
wild squirrels; or to throw anything whatsoever 
into, any animal cage or enclosure, to tease, annoy, 
molest, frighten, to cause injury in any manner to 
any animal or bird in the Zoological Park, whether 
confined or otherwise. 

10. All visitors and all members of the Zoolog- 
ical Park force are strictly forbidden to bring in- 
toxicating liquors, including beer, into the Zoologi- 
cal Park, or to sell, or otherwise dispose of, such 
liquors in the Park. This prohibition shall not 
apply to cordials and spirits that may be ordered 
by the medical officer of the Zoological Park staff 
for strictly medicinal purposes. 

11. It is strictly forbidden to bring unshelled 
peanuts into the Zoological Park, or to throw 
peanut shells upon any walk or lawn. 

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12. It is strictly forbidden to throw or de- 
posit any waste paper, nut shells, fruit refuse, 
luncheon boxes, newspapers or any rubbish of 
any kind upon any walk, lawn, beach or ground in 
the Zoological Park. All rubbish and refuse must 
be deposited in the receptacles provided to receive 
it. 

13. Visitors are strictly forbidden to climb 
over guard rails, fences, or guard wires, to enter 
places not open to visitors, or in any manner ex- 
pose themselves to personal danger in the Zoologi- 
cal Park. 

14. No one shall cut, pluck, break, remove or 
in any manner injure any of the trees, shrubs, 
plants and flowers of the Zoological Park, nor 
remove any soil, nor dump any refuse on Park 
Grounds. 

15. Fishing in any of the ponds, lakes and 
water courses of the Zoological Park, and col- 
lecting living animals of any kind, vertebrate or 
invertebrate or botanical specimens, are pro- 
hibited. 

16. Poller skating and ball playing in the Zoo- 
logical Park are forbidden. 

17. Skating on Bronx Lake is at all times 
forbidden, except when the Zoological Park safety 
signal is displayed. 

18. All persons using rowboats are forbidden, 
to stand up while boating, to pass each other 
standing up, or purposely to rock any boat. 

19. Hawking and peddling in the vicinity of 
any of the Zoological Park entrances along the 
Boston Road, or anywhere on the grounds, or 

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along the boundaries of the Zoological Park, fenced 
or unfenced, is strictly forbidden. 

20. No poles shall be erected for the purpose of 
carrying overhead wires for the transmission of 
electric current, upon any street or road passing 
through the Zoological Park. 

Lost and Found. 

21. All lost articles or lost children shall 
be taken without delay to the office of the Chief 
Clerk, and for all "found" articles that are turned 
in receipts will be furnished by the Chief Clerk. 

Penalty. 

22. Any person who violates any of the above- 
rules will be liable to arrest, fine, and imprison- 
ment. 



All ordinances or parts of ordinances heretofore 
adopted affecting the parks, parkways and public 
places of The City of New York under the juris- 
diction of the Department of Parks inconsistent 
with or in conflict with the ordinances above set 
forth are hereby repealed. 

CABOT WARD, President, 
THOMAS W. WHITTLE, 
RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL, 
JOHN E. WEIER, 
Commissioners of Parks of The City of New York. 
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I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of 
the Ordinances, Rules and Regulations of the De- 
partment of Parks of The City of New York, as 
duly established and now in force. 

LOUIS W. FEHR, 

Secretary, Park Board. 
November 20, 1916. 



PENALTY : 

Section 610 of the Charter provides: 

"Any person violating any ordinances re- 
lating to the parks or other property men- 
tioned in this section shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and shall on conviction before a 
City Magistrate, be punished by a fine not 
exceeding fifty dollars, or in default of pay- 
ment of such fine by imprisonment not ex- 
ceeding thirty days." 



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